Potatoes, Onions and vegetable starts, herbs, spring color and many flower and vegetable seeds.
Vegetable seeds for the spring:
We have Territorial seed, Ed Hume seeds, Sero seeds, Botanical Interest, Renee and Hudson Valley Seed Library. The Hudson Valley Seed Library is a small, farm-based seed company celebrating heirloom and open-pollinated garden seeds and beautiful garden-themed contemporary art. Many of these seeds they produce on their own small farm; the rest they source from other local farmers, farmers in other regions, and from trustworthy wholesale seed houses that are not owned by or affiliated with multi-national biotech companies. They have signed the Safe Seed Pledge, and they adhere to Vandana Shiva's Declaration of Seed Freedom. As of May 2013, they are both a Certified organic farm and a certified organic handler.
Mason Bees:
Spring mason bees are increasingly cultivated to improve pollination for early spring fruit flowers. They are used sometimes as an alternative, but more often as an augmentation for European honey bees. Most mason bees live in holes and are readily attracted to nesting holes; reeds, paper tubes, nesting trays, or drilled blocks of wood. Mason bees are named for their habit of using mud or other “masonry” products in constructing their nests, which are made in naturally occurring gaps such as between cracks in stones or other small dark cavities; when available some species preferentially use hollow stems or holes in wood made by wood-boring insects Bay Hay sells nests and mason bees that are in cocoons.
